Looks like the debates may happen!

[Cheburashka34 228]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514782-moderators-announced-for-presidential-debates

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

4 hours ago, Cheburashka34 said:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514782-moderators-announced-for-presidential-debates

I think Wallace will be tough on both

[Cheburashka34 228]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I think Wallace will be tough on both

Yeah sometimes it's hard to know whose side he's on

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

12 minutes ago, Cheburashka34 said:

Yeah sometimes it's hard to know whose side he's on

And every journalist should have that goal

[Cheburashka34 228]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

And every journalist should have that goal

True...

[TBoneTX 45,956]

Wallace won't be tough on both sides.

It's academic anyway, because the debates won't happen.

Whoever's pulling Hiden's strings won't permit them.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

I'm extremely pessimistic about the media's role in these debates. 

 

All that matters is they ask whatever questions they're going to ask, enforce the time limits (fairly), that's it. I doubt that's what they're going to do though, assuming these debates even happen. In the past, they've given questions in advance to preferred candidates, they've argued with candidates, and selectively enforced time limits. I don't trust them at all, and just because Chris Wallace is with FOX doesn't mean anything, he's been a very big establishment fanatic. Tucker I know respects the process enough to where he'd ask hard questions that better represent issues concerning conservatives (seeing the other two will have an overt left tilt), especially to Trump.. Tucker has a better record of hammering Republicans about relevant things, Chris Wallace appeals to run of the mill "positions" and nonsensical "scandals" that appeal to the parties and not the voters. They wouldn't ever agree to him though because both parties prefer softball questions they can knock out of the park in the polls, or at minimum, won't hurt them with X segment.

Edited September 3, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

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44 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

I'm extremely pessimistic about the media's role in these debates. 

 

All that matters is they ask whatever questions they're going to ask, enforce the time limits (fairly), that's it. I doubt that's what they're going to do though, assuming these debates even happen. In the past, they've given questions in advance to preferred candidates, they've argued with candidates, and selectively enforced time limits. I don't trust them at all, and just because Chris Wallace is with FOX doesn't mean anything, he's been a very big establishment fanatic. Tucker I know respects the process enough to where he'd ask hard questions that better represent issues concerning conservatives (seeing the other two will have an overt left tilt), especially to Trump.. Tucker has a better record of hammering Republicans about relevant things, Chris Wallace appeals to run of the mill "positions" and nonsensical "scandals" that appeal to the parties and not the voters. They wouldn't ever agree to him though because both parties prefer softball questions they can knock out of the park in the polls, or at minimum, won't hurt them with X segment.

debate moderator: "mr biden, is water wet?"

biden: "yes"
debate moderator: "president trump, what is the molecular structure of U-236."

president trump:  "i don't know"

headlines the next day:  biden beats trump in science!

[Cheburashka34 228]

I don't know much about the other two moderators besides Chris wallace, do you guys?

[Cheburashka34 228]

14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Wallace won't be tough on both sides.

It's academic anyway, because the debates won't happen.

Whoever's pulling Hiden's strings won't permit them.

Yes I'm very curious if they will happen and how it could be possible for him to speak logically for that amount of time

[Cheburashka34 228]

18 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

debate moderator: "mr biden, is water wet?"

biden: "yes"
debate moderator: "president trump, what is the molecular structure of U-236."

president trump:  "i don't know"

headlines the next day:  biden beats trump in science!

Biden would probably say "in one hundred years..."

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Cheburashka34 said:

I don't know much about the other two moderators besides Chris wallace, do you guys?

I know them both, Welker (NBC) is not much different from Katie Tur and co, very biased toward Democrats. I'd say Scully (C-SPAN) hides his bias very well, is more likely to interview someone fairly. Chris Wallace is someone that clearly has a bias toward establishment candidates of either party.  I've seen Scully do interviews with Breitbart people and while I was somewhat turned off by giving so much attention to the "extremism" caricature (Breitbart is biased right wing media, ever since the MSM went off the deep end circa 2015 they've actually rebranded as much more level-headed), he didn't do it in the demagoguing way I'd expect from say a Don Lemon, Bill O'Reilly, or Rachel Maddow, I thought he was otherwise rather fair. Of the three, I'm under the impression that Scully might be the fairest, but there's no point in assumptions, each time I thought I'd be watching a "fair" interviewer/journalist, I wound up eating my words. This is a debate involving two different people (wish it was 3-5 involving third parties), so we'll see which moderator is more apt to let the candidates appeal to voters on their own terms and which want to try and narrate a debate that isn't even about them.

Edited September 3, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Dashinka 24,736]

Anyone taking odd that the debate(s) will actually happen?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Anyone taking odd that the debate(s) will actually happen?

Covid!!